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— PAGE TWO —
DT Scribe Interviews
Clyde Beatty
Daily
Trojan
—PAGE FOUR— Reporter Reviews
Class Show
Vol. XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., FRIDAY, APRI 15, 1955
NO.
BOB GERST
. second spot
RON WEINTRAUB
. . . tops vote
eintraub 1st, ob Gerst 2nd In Mr. T. Vote
Ron Weintraub, IFC president, drew the post position as the second day voting for Mr. Trojanality ended yesterday.
He took the lead from second-place Bob Gerst. senator-at-large, who led the first day. DT City Editor Gary Kreutz is in third place, slipping a notch from his | Wednesday position.
Running in fourth and fifth places are Mickey Artenian and Jerry’ McMahon. Other Mr. T candidates are Bill Faddis, Dann Angeloff. Bob Halderman, Tom Cocherell. Howard Smith. Bert Silbert, and Steve Robertson.
Voting Slow Voting progressed very slowly,
I according to Leroy Barker, Mr. T chairman. He urged all students to back the candidates.
The lucky man who wins the tftle gets $100 worth of prizes, jbtained through Tuxedo Center, [where pictures of all the candi-Sates are posted.
In addition to receiving a complete formal outfit, the winner
MICKEY ARTENIAN
. . . fourth man
also gets an Evans lighter, a black briar pipe, and a Pioneer accessories kit.
Second Man
The number two man will get a record album from Donn’s Record Shop.
The booth will be open today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Twenty five cents is the equivalent of one | vote. Marilyn Molitor, booth chairman, is assisting Barker.
Baker also revealed that the “TNE darkhorse candidate” was doing well.
[OUTHOUSE COSTS $300
Stratford Slaps Fine Against IFC
Burning of a portable outhouse, tool box, and assorted umber Mar. 31 resulted in a $10 disciplinary assessment gainst all members of the Interfraternity Council yester-ay.
At the meeting, where apprroximately only 12 houses ere represented. Dr. William D
tratford, IFC coordinator, resented a $300 bill for the lamage.
It was reported that gasoline ’■as tossed on the equipment and then it was set afire.
The equipment, which had been left overnight on location, belonged to a private construction company which was resurfacing 30th Street.
In presenting the bill, Dr. Stratford said that each house must pay $10. and the IFC must send a letter of apology to the City of Los Angeles and to the private concern.
Dr. Stratford's proposal received little opposition from the group.
He also reported that the Citi-
zens’ Committee on 28th Street recently complained that unsightly garbage cans have been left on the street, beer cans have been thrown from house roofs, there has been excessive noise, water bombs have been tossed at passing cars, and bonfires have been in excess on the Row.
“We must clean our own linen and not put it out for others to see.’’ Dr. Stratford said in regards to the citizens’ complaints.
President Ron Weintraub told the group that all bills owed IFC must be paid by next Thursday or action will have to be taken against houses with the outstanding bills. More than $1000 is owed to the council by fraternities, he said.
ALUMNI DAY ON MAY 17 ATTRACTS '87 SURVIVORS
School days when high-wheeled bicycles and hitching: posts for horse back riders were in vogue will be recalled by SC graduates over the past 55 years who will return to the campus May 7 to celebrate the annual Alumni Day.
Included among those invited to a special table at the barbecue luncheon on the campus lawn are three living members of the class of 68 years ago. A petrified stone tree stump bearing the class numerals of ’8“ is a campus landmark.
The three survivors are Judge Jesse W. Curtis, Mrs. Bertha Lindley Coffin, and Fanny Tarr.
Other members of the Half-Century Club are planning to attend, according to Dr. H. G. McNeil, club president and member of the class of ’01. Those alumni who attended SC during the oil-lamp days and will be returning for the celebration include Dr. E. P. Hilliker, member of the first dental class in 1900; Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, *91; Bertha Rose, *98; and Prof. and Mrs. Horatio Cogswell, ’99.
A carnival theme for all members of Trojan families is being planned by Mildred Younger, general chairman of the day. Thirty-five booths will be run by fraternity and sorority members during the morning for youngsters who will also be guests at the University swimming pool.
♦
ll cu!L‘ $2. Tuition Increase
Slated For Fall Term
Still Short Of Goal
By Darlene Hall
Trojan Chest collections are still $750 short of the expected goal as the drive reaches its final day today.
The Pie Throwing Contest netted $80 and the Squire Buggy Derby brought in $40, both being termed huge successes, but not enough to reach the $2250 goal, Trojan Chest Chairman Jerry Nace said.
“The YWCA faces being closed down and the Troy Camp is seriously threatened if the student’s don’t make up the $750 difference today,” Nace said.
Classroom Solicitations
Classroom collections will be taken in 11 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. classes today.
Students who gathered at the corner of the Student Union yesterday afternoon can be accredited for doing their bit to add to the collections as they placed bets right and left for their favorites in the derby race.
Amidst the clutter of capsized carts and the shouts of onlookers the Pi Kappa Alphas pushed their market basket entry over the finish line as champions in the contest.
TKE Tops Bets
Tau Kappa Epsilon’s converted street-sweeper cart brought in $7 worth of bets, the greatest amount for any one of the 15 entries. #
Kappa Kappa Gamma won in the women’s division, competing against a Delta Gamma and Alpha Epsilon Phi entry.
Brando’s Brawl, the Trojan Chest dance originally scheduled for tonight, has been called off, Trojan Chest Chairman Jerry Nace announced last night.
Nace said those holding tickets for the event will receive refunds.
Three men’s races and one woman's race were held. Overall champions, Neil Sherwood and Roger Caley, PiKAs, won in the last race run by the winners of the previous three races.
Phi Upsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, and Alpha Tau Omega were squeezed out of the first race by Ralph Ferguson and Jerry Andes in their TKE push cart.
Pi Kappa Alphas outdid the Phi Delta Theta’s, Phi Sigma Kappa’s and Sigma Chi’s in the third set of competitions.
Squire Dave Gershenson pushed Tri-Delt Jodie Tarchione on an ice cream capt across the finish line winning over the Sigma Alpha Mu’s and TNE’s entries.
HARVEST TIME IN AFRICA
Fete Set for 8
Sharing the spotlight as highlights of the fourth annual African Harvest Festival tomorrow night at 8 in Bovard Auditorium, will be the dramatization of a typical African marriage ceremony and a demonstration of African wrestling.
The cast of the show, which is sponsored by the Intercultural Club and directed by Chukuemeka Okeke, is made up of African students studying at colleges and universities in Southern California.
Some of the institutions represented will be Pasadena City, Los Angeles State, Pepperdine, Occidental, Loyola, Pomona, Compton, UCLA, SC, and the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
Mutual Association
An African marriage is just like the American marriage in that “it is an association between two persons for mutual support and the rearing of children,” Ngwobia Uka, African Association president explained.
“It is different, however, in that it usually prompts a closer alliance between the two families,” he said. “Customarily the parents or elder members of the family arrange the marriage, but it is not forced upon an unwilling couple.”
Personality quality, rather than love, is usually the basis for selecting a partner, he said.
Offers Cup of Wine
The dramatization will include the engagement ceremony, where the bride either accepts or rejects a cup of wine offered by her intended partner. If she accepts, the two families make plans for the wedding.
Another highlight of the show will be an African wrestling demonstration. African wrestling is a non-commercial sport which pits village against village.
Coaches sit on tjie sidelines and transmit signals to the participants on drums.
Other acts will be folk songs and dances, war dances, “talking” drums used to send messages long distances, and several native ceremonials.
Songs, Dances
Soloists will sing of life and love in the African villages, the fickleness of women and the philandering of men. The “Sapara,” a dance which celebrates an Af-
FESTIVAL CAST—African students from Southern California schools and colleges will present the fourth annual Harvest Festival at 8
Need Higher Rate To Meet Raises In Staff Wages
Tuition in most undergraduate day classes will be Increased $2 per unit next fall, in order to raise money for faculty and staff salary increases President Fred D. Fagg Jr. said yesterday.
The unit will go from $20 to $22 for all undergraduate
students taking a total of nine units or more.
Those students registered for a total of eight units or less will continue to pay $20 per unit.
Tuition will remain $20 per unit for Summer Session and all graduate courses of the 500-level and above.
Registration costs in some professional schools will also be increased. Dentistry will be raised from $750 to $800 per year. Dental Hygiene will go from $450 to $550 per year. Law will be increased from $560 to $600, Medicine from $900 to $950, and Pharmacy from $660 to $700.
The average student at SC will pay $680 per year. Stanford, for example, charges $750, and Pomona $800.
In the East, Cornell, Princeton and Yale are all $1000 each. Dartmouth charges $980, MIT $900, Brown $950, Columbia $810, and Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore all $800 each.
SCs increase will help meet the University’s added costs for salaries, additional instruction needed, teaching materials, and supplies. President Fagg said.
tomorrow night in Bovard. A typical marriage ceremony and a demonstration of wrestling will highlight the evening program.
rican wedding, will also be presented.
“The entire program is in commemoration of a celebration held during the harvest season in most parts of Africa. People give thanks to the gods for a good harvest and celebrate with songs and dances.” Uka said.
The aim of the program, which started four years ago, is to promote a better understanding of African culture and goodwill among the peoples of the African continent and America.
CUC REPORTS
“America is very much admired in our part of the world and we are trying to show the Americans our customs and traditions,” Okeke said.
All students participating in the program are from Africa and plan to return after they complete their schooling here, Okeke explained.
“Since we have only one girl from our continent attending
school here we have had to bor- Instructors have favorable opinions regarding the course row a few American girls who ______ .. .. . f ^ ® 6_____
have been coached to help in the evaluatlon questionnaires given last semester to 600 SC stu-festival,” the director said. dents, according to Fred Fagg HI, Greater University Committee chairman.
Faculty Approves Class Evaluation
Independent Rise and Fall Told in WB Recollections
(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles analyzing the campus political situation. In the first four installments, the Watchbird told the story of the secret TNE group and then began an analysis of the political status of non-fraternity students. Yesterday, the WB presented an analysis of why most independents have little interest in campus politics. He also traced the history of independent-dominated Unity Party up to the disputed 1949 election.)
Angry over the Row-dominated Senate’s refusal to grant a referendum on the fraudulent Padgett-Verheilig election of 1949, Unity Party members again went to the student body, got 4000 signatures demanding a referendum, and pushed the petition through the Senate.
At the referendum students called for a re-election, which was held at the beginning of the fall semester. This time protesting independents turned out in greater numbers than ever before. Bob Padgett was elected the first nonfraternity ASSC President, and Unity Party was at its crest.
As president, Padgett was conciliatory and tried to keep peace with the Row-controlled Senate, which turned down most of his appointments and proposals.
. Padgett made a good impression on the student body as seen by the results of the 1950 election. Unity won more posts that year than it ever had—or ever would. But its presidential candidate, Jack Shaffer, lost to TKE A1 Wiggins by 138 votes.
Unity Ballots
Unity had circulated its slate of candidates on small yellow pieces of paper. On the last day of voting the Greater University Party (name of the Row group controlled by TNE) passed out the Unity sample ballots—but with its own slate substituted for Unity’s.
Although disappointed by Shaffer’s losing, Unity still elected 11 of its 18 candidates.
Important issues brought up by Unity members that year were expansion of parking facilities, buiding a Student Health Center, and closing University Avenue.
Of course there were two old standby platform planks. One was trying to bring the National Student Association to campus, and the other was protesting against alleged
i
racial and religious discrimination in campus groups a..d professional schools.
Allen E. Arthur, now promotion director for the Diamond Jubilee celebration, and at that time an up-coming Unity member, had conducted a survey of the parking situation. Because of his and Shaffer’s prodding, three lots were added for student parking.
Arthur Platform
Arthur also did a study of traffic on University, checking the number of cars using it and their speed. When he ran for student body president in 1951 on the Unity ticket, he campaigned for the closing of the avenue and for construction of the Walls of Troy.
But Unity Party had passed its peak. It had no money and few active workers. Out of 40 members, about eight showed up for meetings. “Unity could have met in a telephone booth without being crowded,” as one party man put it.
Arthur lost by 435 votes in the runoff election against John Bradley, a candidate of the newly formed Trojans for Representative Government (“Free Greek”) Party.
In 1952 Unity made its first alliance with the Row on a presidential candidate. It backed TRG candidate Bob Hitchcock against Wendell Casey, who won.
An independent splinter group, disgusted with Unity, set up its own party called TROY—Trojans Responsible Only to You—and nominated Howard McCardy, who polled only 239 votes.
Probe Committee Set Up
Bill Van Alstyne, Unity-backed independent men’s representative, and Debater Bo Jansen succeeded in getting a Unity favorite—the discrimination issue—before the Senate that year. Senators set up an investigating committee which reported the university had no racial discriminatory policy in admitting students.
Later as senator-at-large, Van ALstyne (who had then joined a fraternity) was instrumental in getting an impartial report on the question of SC’s affiliating with NSA. Murray Bring, independent men’s representative last year, finally succeeded in getting the proposal OK’d.
(Continued on Page 4)
Fagg revealed yesterday evaluation has compiled a report and will submit it to the Senate for future reference.
Seventy-nine questions were asked the students covering the assignments, textbooks, presentation of the course, and the professor. In addition, three subjective questions were asked as to what the student liked about the course, what he disliked, and what he thought needed improvement.
Looked for Trends In analyzing the results culled from the completed questionaires, committee members looked for two significant trends: the sincerity of comment and the consistency of opinion.
The committee report stated that without exception both trends were favorably noted, and showed the experiment to be a valid one.
that the committee on course
Both Steve Mulhollen, chairman of the course evaluation committee, and Fagg felt, however, that in spite of the success of the questionaire, refinement* would have to be injected before
it could be a perfectly adequate
tool.
Such refinements include meeting with the testing bureau to review the wording of each question and the addition of other pertinent questions.
Committee members met with each cooperating instructor and discussed the results. The report stated that all the instructors felt the questionaire was an excellent tool for helping them improve the minor things that were so often overlooked, but which stood in the way of superior teaching.
STAFFERS JOURNEY NORTH FOR MEDICAL MEETINGS
Virtually the entire staff of the department of biochemistry and nutrition and several members of the faculty of the School of Medicine are in San Francisco for the 39th annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the 46th annual meeting of the American Assn. for Cancer Research.
Scientific research, papers are being read by most of the SC people at the conventions.
On the program for the Federation meetings were Amber L. S. Cheng, Thomas Graham, Dr. Roslyn B. Alfin-Slater, Dean Harry J. Deuel Jr. of the Graduate School, Dr. D. M. Green, E. J. Ellis, R. J. Girerd, Dr. Hurley Motley, Dr. Chester Hyman, Dr. Sol Bemick, Rita Paldino, Dr. Telfer B. Reynolds, Richard E. Beltz, Dr. Donald Vis-ser, Mr. Margaret Morehouse, A. M. Stein, Dr. John W. Mehl, K. T. Achaya, W. P. Skipski, Ronald L. Searcy, Dr. John B. Field, Richard P. Spencer, Dr. Paul Salt-man, R. D. Fiskin, S. B. Belling* r, G. F. Lanchantin, S. R. Notrica, Dr. Arnold Ware, Dr. Benjamin Ersboff, Ezra Levin, Dr. Harold Pearson, Dorothy Lagerberg, Dr. Eloise Jameson.

— PAGE TWO —
DT Scribe Interviews
Clyde Beatty
Daily
Trojan
—PAGE FOUR— Reporter Reviews
Class Show
Vol. XLVI
LOS ANGELES, CALIF., FRIDAY, APRI 15, 1955
NO.
BOB GERST
. second spot
RON WEINTRAUB
. . . tops vote
eintraub 1st, ob Gerst 2nd In Mr. T. Vote
Ron Weintraub, IFC president, drew the post position as the second day voting for Mr. Trojanality ended yesterday.
He took the lead from second-place Bob Gerst. senator-at-large, who led the first day. DT City Editor Gary Kreutz is in third place, slipping a notch from his | Wednesday position.
Running in fourth and fifth places are Mickey Artenian and Jerry’ McMahon. Other Mr. T candidates are Bill Faddis, Dann Angeloff. Bob Halderman, Tom Cocherell. Howard Smith. Bert Silbert, and Steve Robertson.
Voting Slow Voting progressed very slowly,
I according to Leroy Barker, Mr. T chairman. He urged all students to back the candidates.
The lucky man who wins the tftle gets $100 worth of prizes, jbtained through Tuxedo Center, [where pictures of all the candi-Sates are posted.
In addition to receiving a complete formal outfit, the winner
MICKEY ARTENIAN
. . . fourth man
also gets an Evans lighter, a black briar pipe, and a Pioneer accessories kit.
Second Man
The number two man will get a record album from Donn’s Record Shop.
The booth will be open today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Twenty five cents is the equivalent of one | vote. Marilyn Molitor, booth chairman, is assisting Barker.
Baker also revealed that the “TNE darkhorse candidate” was doing well.
[OUTHOUSE COSTS $300
Stratford Slaps Fine Against IFC
Burning of a portable outhouse, tool box, and assorted umber Mar. 31 resulted in a $10 disciplinary assessment gainst all members of the Interfraternity Council yester-ay.
At the meeting, where apprroximately only 12 houses ere represented. Dr. William D
tratford, IFC coordinator, resented a $300 bill for the lamage.
It was reported that gasoline ’■as tossed on the equipment and then it was set afire.
The equipment, which had been left overnight on location, belonged to a private construction company which was resurfacing 30th Street.
In presenting the bill, Dr. Stratford said that each house must pay $10. and the IFC must send a letter of apology to the City of Los Angeles and to the private concern.
Dr. Stratford's proposal received little opposition from the group.
He also reported that the Citi-
zens’ Committee on 28th Street recently complained that unsightly garbage cans have been left on the street, beer cans have been thrown from house roofs, there has been excessive noise, water bombs have been tossed at passing cars, and bonfires have been in excess on the Row.
“We must clean our own linen and not put it out for others to see.’’ Dr. Stratford said in regards to the citizens’ complaints.
President Ron Weintraub told the group that all bills owed IFC must be paid by next Thursday or action will have to be taken against houses with the outstanding bills. More than $1000 is owed to the council by fraternities, he said.
ALUMNI DAY ON MAY 17 ATTRACTS '87 SURVIVORS
School days when high-wheeled bicycles and hitching: posts for horse back riders were in vogue will be recalled by SC graduates over the past 55 years who will return to the campus May 7 to celebrate the annual Alumni Day.
Included among those invited to a special table at the barbecue luncheon on the campus lawn are three living members of the class of 68 years ago. A petrified stone tree stump bearing the class numerals of ’8“ is a campus landmark.
The three survivors are Judge Jesse W. Curtis, Mrs. Bertha Lindley Coffin, and Fanny Tarr.
Other members of the Half-Century Club are planning to attend, according to Dr. H. G. McNeil, club president and member of the class of ’01. Those alumni who attended SC during the oil-lamp days and will be returning for the celebration include Dr. E. P. Hilliker, member of the first dental class in 1900; Dr. Thomas Nixon Carver, *91; Bertha Rose, *98; and Prof. and Mrs. Horatio Cogswell, ’99.
A carnival theme for all members of Trojan families is being planned by Mildred Younger, general chairman of the day. Thirty-five booths will be run by fraternity and sorority members during the morning for youngsters who will also be guests at the University swimming pool.
♦
ll cu!L‘ $2. Tuition Increase
Slated For Fall Term
Still Short Of Goal
By Darlene Hall
Trojan Chest collections are still $750 short of the expected goal as the drive reaches its final day today.
The Pie Throwing Contest netted $80 and the Squire Buggy Derby brought in $40, both being termed huge successes, but not enough to reach the $2250 goal, Trojan Chest Chairman Jerry Nace said.
“The YWCA faces being closed down and the Troy Camp is seriously threatened if the student’s don’t make up the $750 difference today,” Nace said.
Classroom Solicitations
Classroom collections will be taken in 11 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. classes today.
Students who gathered at the corner of the Student Union yesterday afternoon can be accredited for doing their bit to add to the collections as they placed bets right and left for their favorites in the derby race.
Amidst the clutter of capsized carts and the shouts of onlookers the Pi Kappa Alphas pushed their market basket entry over the finish line as champions in the contest.
TKE Tops Bets
Tau Kappa Epsilon’s converted street-sweeper cart brought in $7 worth of bets, the greatest amount for any one of the 15 entries. #
Kappa Kappa Gamma won in the women’s division, competing against a Delta Gamma and Alpha Epsilon Phi entry.
Brando’s Brawl, the Trojan Chest dance originally scheduled for tonight, has been called off, Trojan Chest Chairman Jerry Nace announced last night.
Nace said those holding tickets for the event will receive refunds.
Three men’s races and one woman's race were held. Overall champions, Neil Sherwood and Roger Caley, PiKAs, won in the last race run by the winners of the previous three races.
Phi Upsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, and Alpha Tau Omega were squeezed out of the first race by Ralph Ferguson and Jerry Andes in their TKE push cart.
Pi Kappa Alphas outdid the Phi Delta Theta’s, Phi Sigma Kappa’s and Sigma Chi’s in the third set of competitions.
Squire Dave Gershenson pushed Tri-Delt Jodie Tarchione on an ice cream capt across the finish line winning over the Sigma Alpha Mu’s and TNE’s entries.
HARVEST TIME IN AFRICA
Fete Set for 8
Sharing the spotlight as highlights of the fourth annual African Harvest Festival tomorrow night at 8 in Bovard Auditorium, will be the dramatization of a typical African marriage ceremony and a demonstration of African wrestling.
The cast of the show, which is sponsored by the Intercultural Club and directed by Chukuemeka Okeke, is made up of African students studying at colleges and universities in Southern California.
Some of the institutions represented will be Pasadena City, Los Angeles State, Pepperdine, Occidental, Loyola, Pomona, Compton, UCLA, SC, and the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons.
Mutual Association
An African marriage is just like the American marriage in that “it is an association between two persons for mutual support and the rearing of children,” Ngwobia Uka, African Association president explained.
“It is different, however, in that it usually prompts a closer alliance between the two families,” he said. “Customarily the parents or elder members of the family arrange the marriage, but it is not forced upon an unwilling couple.”
Personality quality, rather than love, is usually the basis for selecting a partner, he said.
Offers Cup of Wine
The dramatization will include the engagement ceremony, where the bride either accepts or rejects a cup of wine offered by her intended partner. If she accepts, the two families make plans for the wedding.
Another highlight of the show will be an African wrestling demonstration. African wrestling is a non-commercial sport which pits village against village.
Coaches sit on tjie sidelines and transmit signals to the participants on drums.
Other acts will be folk songs and dances, war dances, “talking” drums used to send messages long distances, and several native ceremonials.
Songs, Dances
Soloists will sing of life and love in the African villages, the fickleness of women and the philandering of men. The “Sapara,” a dance which celebrates an Af-
FESTIVAL CAST—African students from Southern California schools and colleges will present the fourth annual Harvest Festival at 8
Need Higher Rate To Meet Raises In Staff Wages
Tuition in most undergraduate day classes will be Increased $2 per unit next fall, in order to raise money for faculty and staff salary increases President Fred D. Fagg Jr. said yesterday.
The unit will go from $20 to $22 for all undergraduate
students taking a total of nine units or more.
Those students registered for a total of eight units or less will continue to pay $20 per unit.
Tuition will remain $20 per unit for Summer Session and all graduate courses of the 500-level and above.
Registration costs in some professional schools will also be increased. Dentistry will be raised from $750 to $800 per year. Dental Hygiene will go from $450 to $550 per year. Law will be increased from $560 to $600, Medicine from $900 to $950, and Pharmacy from $660 to $700.
The average student at SC will pay $680 per year. Stanford, for example, charges $750, and Pomona $800.
In the East, Cornell, Princeton and Yale are all $1000 each. Dartmouth charges $980, MIT $900, Brown $950, Columbia $810, and Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore all $800 each.
SCs increase will help meet the University’s added costs for salaries, additional instruction needed, teaching materials, and supplies. President Fagg said.
tomorrow night in Bovard. A typical marriage ceremony and a demonstration of wrestling will highlight the evening program.
rican wedding, will also be presented.
“The entire program is in commemoration of a celebration held during the harvest season in most parts of Africa. People give thanks to the gods for a good harvest and celebrate with songs and dances.” Uka said.
The aim of the program, which started four years ago, is to promote a better understanding of African culture and goodwill among the peoples of the African continent and America.
CUC REPORTS
“America is very much admired in our part of the world and we are trying to show the Americans our customs and traditions,” Okeke said.
All students participating in the program are from Africa and plan to return after they complete their schooling here, Okeke explained.
“Since we have only one girl from our continent attending
school here we have had to bor- Instructors have favorable opinions regarding the course row a few American girls who ______ .. .. . f ^ ® 6_____
have been coached to help in the evaluatlon questionnaires given last semester to 600 SC stu-festival,” the director said. dents, according to Fred Fagg HI, Greater University Committee chairman.
Faculty Approves Class Evaluation
Independent Rise and Fall Told in WB Recollections
(Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles analyzing the campus political situation. In the first four installments, the Watchbird told the story of the secret TNE group and then began an analysis of the political status of non-fraternity students. Yesterday, the WB presented an analysis of why most independents have little interest in campus politics. He also traced the history of independent-dominated Unity Party up to the disputed 1949 election.)
Angry over the Row-dominated Senate’s refusal to grant a referendum on the fraudulent Padgett-Verheilig election of 1949, Unity Party members again went to the student body, got 4000 signatures demanding a referendum, and pushed the petition through the Senate.
At the referendum students called for a re-election, which was held at the beginning of the fall semester. This time protesting independents turned out in greater numbers than ever before. Bob Padgett was elected the first nonfraternity ASSC President, and Unity Party was at its crest.
As president, Padgett was conciliatory and tried to keep peace with the Row-controlled Senate, which turned down most of his appointments and proposals.
. Padgett made a good impression on the student body as seen by the results of the 1950 election. Unity won more posts that year than it ever had—or ever would. But its presidential candidate, Jack Shaffer, lost to TKE A1 Wiggins by 138 votes.
Unity Ballots
Unity had circulated its slate of candidates on small yellow pieces of paper. On the last day of voting the Greater University Party (name of the Row group controlled by TNE) passed out the Unity sample ballots—but with its own slate substituted for Unity’s.
Although disappointed by Shaffer’s losing, Unity still elected 11 of its 18 candidates.
Important issues brought up by Unity members that year were expansion of parking facilities, buiding a Student Health Center, and closing University Avenue.
Of course there were two old standby platform planks. One was trying to bring the National Student Association to campus, and the other was protesting against alleged
i
racial and religious discrimination in campus groups a..d professional schools.
Allen E. Arthur, now promotion director for the Diamond Jubilee celebration, and at that time an up-coming Unity member, had conducted a survey of the parking situation. Because of his and Shaffer’s prodding, three lots were added for student parking.
Arthur Platform
Arthur also did a study of traffic on University, checking the number of cars using it and their speed. When he ran for student body president in 1951 on the Unity ticket, he campaigned for the closing of the avenue and for construction of the Walls of Troy.
But Unity Party had passed its peak. It had no money and few active workers. Out of 40 members, about eight showed up for meetings. “Unity could have met in a telephone booth without being crowded,” as one party man put it.
Arthur lost by 435 votes in the runoff election against John Bradley, a candidate of the newly formed Trojans for Representative Government (“Free Greek”) Party.
In 1952 Unity made its first alliance with the Row on a presidential candidate. It backed TRG candidate Bob Hitchcock against Wendell Casey, who won.
An independent splinter group, disgusted with Unity, set up its own party called TROY—Trojans Responsible Only to You—and nominated Howard McCardy, who polled only 239 votes.
Probe Committee Set Up
Bill Van Alstyne, Unity-backed independent men’s representative, and Debater Bo Jansen succeeded in getting a Unity favorite—the discrimination issue—before the Senate that year. Senators set up an investigating committee which reported the university had no racial discriminatory policy in admitting students.
Later as senator-at-large, Van ALstyne (who had then joined a fraternity) was instrumental in getting an impartial report on the question of SC’s affiliating with NSA. Murray Bring, independent men’s representative last year, finally succeeded in getting the proposal OK’d.
(Continued on Page 4)
Fagg revealed yesterday evaluation has compiled a report and will submit it to the Senate for future reference.
Seventy-nine questions were asked the students covering the assignments, textbooks, presentation of the course, and the professor. In addition, three subjective questions were asked as to what the student liked about the course, what he disliked, and what he thought needed improvement.
Looked for Trends In analyzing the results culled from the completed questionaires, committee members looked for two significant trends: the sincerity of comment and the consistency of opinion.
The committee report stated that without exception both trends were favorably noted, and showed the experiment to be a valid one.
that the committee on course
Both Steve Mulhollen, chairman of the course evaluation committee, and Fagg felt, however, that in spite of the success of the questionaire, refinement* would have to be injected before
it could be a perfectly adequate
tool.
Such refinements include meeting with the testing bureau to review the wording of each question and the addition of other pertinent questions.
Committee members met with each cooperating instructor and discussed the results. The report stated that all the instructors felt the questionaire was an excellent tool for helping them improve the minor things that were so often overlooked, but which stood in the way of superior teaching.
STAFFERS JOURNEY NORTH FOR MEDICAL MEETINGS
Virtually the entire staff of the department of biochemistry and nutrition and several members of the faculty of the School of Medicine are in San Francisco for the 39th annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the 46th annual meeting of the American Assn. for Cancer Research.
Scientific research, papers are being read by most of the SC people at the conventions.
On the program for the Federation meetings were Amber L. S. Cheng, Thomas Graham, Dr. Roslyn B. Alfin-Slater, Dean Harry J. Deuel Jr. of the Graduate School, Dr. D. M. Green, E. J. Ellis, R. J. Girerd, Dr. Hurley Motley, Dr. Chester Hyman, Dr. Sol Bemick, Rita Paldino, Dr. Telfer B. Reynolds, Richard E. Beltz, Dr. Donald Vis-ser, Mr. Margaret Morehouse, A. M. Stein, Dr. John W. Mehl, K. T. Achaya, W. P. Skipski, Ronald L. Searcy, Dr. John B. Field, Richard P. Spencer, Dr. Paul Salt-man, R. D. Fiskin, S. B. Belling* r, G. F. Lanchantin, S. R. Notrica, Dr. Arnold Ware, Dr. Benjamin Ersboff, Ezra Levin, Dr. Harold Pearson, Dorothy Lagerberg, Dr. Eloise Jameson.